Experience
Maniva is a Solicitor in DWF’s commercial and technology team. She has gained experience advising on high value private and public sector commercial matters and supports a range of clients on both business as usual and IT matters, as well as supporting with large corporate transactions. Maniva has completed a six-month placement at a FTSE 100 utilities provider and has a strong understanding of commercial risk and the core challenges faced by businesses.
Maniva is a member of DWF’s Grants Centre of Excellence which has been created to add value for, and service, the requirements of DWF’s Public Sector clients.
Some of her experience is listed below:
- Advising on the key risks within a number of software as a service agreements.
- Acting for a large supermarket chain on a range of contract review and business as usual matters.
- Advising a management consultancy on preparing a template subcontract.
- Drafting a mutual non-disclosure agreement and preparing a risk review for a cross-border joint venture.
- Reviewing and advising a UK retail bank on the key issues within an introducer agreement.
- Reviewing and advising an outsourcing specialist upon the key issues within a toll manufacturing agreement.
- Providing commercial due diligence support in relation to a number of acquisitions.
Recent cases
Advised a major national utility provider on all legal aspects of the procurement of a high-value and business-critical customer portal solution to replace its existing on-premise system.
Publications
Decoding the UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan: The UK's evolving stance on AI